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(NewsUSA) - Toys for Tots is more than a Christmastime charity - thanks to a new partnership between the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and Good360.Toys for Tots, the 74-year national charitable program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, is launching a DoGoodNow campaign to bring toys, books, and games to families in need … Continued
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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Johannesburg — At least 22 countries in Africa will be organizing polls this year, 13 of which will be for the positions of president or prime minister.
So why are these countries not being advised to postpone elections?
However, WHO says it is not discouraging elections but is advising that any gathering of people needs to be carried out with physical barriers and distancing among the people involved.
Handling the COVID-19 outbreak also brought some trouble for Tanzania's President John Magufuli, who is facing his first election since being chosen as the country's leader 5 years ago.
Magufuli is being described a tyrant by the opposition, who say information is being controlled and that the alleged withholding the true number of people with the novel coronavirus is an election tactic by the president.
The team at Downsound Entertainment (DSE) redoubled its efforts to alleviate the tough conditions faced by so many families and the elderly across the island due to COVID-19 through the distribution of care packages containing fresh produce, poultry, and canned goods.
With May being Child Month, the packages also included books, toys, and clothes for the children as part of the company's latest effort, which benefited some 718 families in Montego Bay and St Catherine who received care packages .
Over the past week, in addition to the 718 care packages delivered to families in Montego Bay and St Catherine, DSE donated toys and books to over 300 children.
To help celebrate Mother's Day the DSE team recognised three special mothers with a presentation of Mother's Day gift boxes with food, clothing, books, and toys.
The DSE care package initiative began on April 1, 2020 when the team visited farmers in St Elizabeth and Trelawny to purchase ground provisions, and teamed up with Grace Foods, Pepsi, and Stylo G to distribute packages to families and individuals in need across Kingston and St Andrew.
French President Emanuel Macron was unmasked - literally - on Tuesday. Photographers caught Macron removing his face mask to cough, prompting speculation on social media about his health and whether he should be fined. France has a mandatory mask policy that carries a 135 euro ($159) fine for noncompliance. In Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region in France on Sept. 8 […]
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If the shelves at your home that you’ve been staring at (since stay-at-home orders were put in place) are a bit bare, Rolls Royce has you covered.
If you’re not part of the rare one percent, you likely can’t afford one of the cars part of the luxurious Rolls Royce fleet– especially because the cheapest will set you back around $300,000.
The 1:8 Rolls-Royce Cullinan can be yours, for just $17,000.
This process can take up to 450 hours – over half of the time required to build a full-sized Cullinan at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex.”
The mini Cullinan comes equipped with working lights, 40,000 exterior paint choices, a perfectly replicated engine, and the buttery leather you’d expect from the Rolls brand.
By Julianne Malveaux I was frightened of monsters when I was a child. Not so sure why, but my brother, who loved to plague me, used to tell me they were lurking under my bed. I shook, and I shivered, and I cried for fear that one of those dreaded monsters would rise from under […]
Tyree Scott was a Seattle civil rights and labor leader who opened the door to women and minority workers in the construction industry. Scott was born in Hearne (Wharton County), Texas and before moving to Seattle in 1966, he served in the U. S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. His father was an electrician in Seattle who found that jobs in the construction industry were off limits to blacks, limiting his ability to compete for large contracts. In 1969, when Seattle’s Model Cities Program was attracting large federal contracts, the anti-poverty agency encouraged black contractors to organize in order to gain access to them.
Scott became the leader of a group of black contractors known as the Central Contractors Association who sought equal compliance in Federal building projects. During the months of August and September, 1969, he led the CCA in shutting down every major federal construction site throughout Seattle to protest the ongoing discrimination against black contractors and construction workers. One protest closed a work site on the University of Washington campus while another demonstration temporarily halted work on the construction of an airport runway at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. These protests precipitated the first federal imposition of affirmative action upon local labor unions. The United States Department of Justice filed suit against the all-white construction unions in late 1969 for their discriminatory practices. The following year Federal Judge William Lindberg mandated a broad affirmative action program for the Seattle construction industry. The Seattle Plan, as his order was soon called, eventually became a national model for affirmative action in the construction industry.
In 1970, Tyree Scott became the leader of the United Construction Workers Association, a new organization proposed by the American Friends Service Committee which was to support minority workers with activism, social work, and political advocacy. In 1973, the UCWA, the Alaska Cannery Workers Association,
(Trinidad Guardian) “Commendable.”
This is how chairman Robert Bermudez has described the Massy Group’s performance for the second quarter of its financial year which ended Mach 31, 2020.
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While affluent whites were using legal devices to avoid recruitment for the Vietnam War as well as fleeing to Canada and obtaining college deferments, Dan Bullock, an African-American, who quit school in the seventh grade volunteered. By doing so, he became the youngest American serviceman, at the age of 15 to be killed in action...
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The Food and Drug Administration has expanded a list of about 75 hand sanitizers being recalled, saying toxic levels of wood alcohol in them can cause injury or death. The recall is due to an increase in hand sanitizers labeled to contain ethyl alcohol or ethanol that have tested positive for methanol, or wood alcohol. …
[East African] The self-declared Republic of Somaliland marked 30 years of self-rule with festivities in the capital Hargeisa.
President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Michael Singh says the body is awaiting the requisite approval from the National Covid-19 Task Force before commencing preparation for their participation in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Pre-Qualifiers.
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Having a family that can't wait for lunch to be served, try making this noodle bake that'll pleasantly surprise them and it's quick to make!
The SAPS has blamed the Covid-19 pandemic as the leading cause of delays in processing firearm licence applications. “The South African Police Service Central Firearm Registry confirms that firearm license applications have been delayed due to various reasons, with the Covid-19 pandemic being the leading one,” SAPS spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said on Monday. “The […]
A giant vaccination center is opening in Houston to administer 126,000 coronavirus doses in the next three weeks. Nevada health officials are working overtime to distribute delayed shots. And Rhode Island is rescheduling appointments after a vaccine shipment failed to arrive as scheduled earlier in the week. From coast to coast, states were scrambling Tuesday […]
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick may not ever play in the NFL again, as many believe he is being blacklisted by the league for his stance against police brutality. This really, however, has not stopped Kaepernick's ongoing activism around social justice. According to TMZ, the 33-year-old will release a book of essays advocating the abolition […]
The education ministry has blocked the release of basic information that could provide more details on how more than $7 billion in vocational programmes for students was administered and spent since 2010. The Sunday Gleaner has been denied access...
The RISE for Rare Multi-Channel Campaign Will Build Awareness Around Rare Disease and Its Impact on Communities of Color The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) announced the launch of a comprehensive multi-channel campaign entitled RISE for Rare. This campaign is the first large scale activation of BWHI’s Rare Disease Diversity Coalition that was formed in […]
The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands is relaunching The Virtues Project, a global grassroots initiative to inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life and to spark a global revolution.
[Monitor] By Arthur Arnold Wadero
It was a solemn, tearful evening Thursday as friends, family members and the community gathered in Rancho Cucamonga to honor 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, one of 13 U.S. service members killed in the Aug. 26 attack at a Kabul, Afghanistan airport. Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga was killed in […]
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S.E. Williams | Executive Editor America lost a hero on Friday, September 18, 2020 when 97-year-old Palm Springs resident Joseph Beaver died. Beavers is being remembered and celebrated for his service to the nation, his community and the ongoing struggle for human dignity and civil rights. It was just six short years ago when Beaver, […]
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"Fifty-four percent of African American votes that year were cast … newly registered and younger voters, African Americans, as well as Democrats, who …
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – ‘Those who resort to inflammatory rhetoric must accept some responsibility for inciting the increasing violence in our nation,’ said Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington.
